European Parliament calls for European Commission to look into creating...
The European Parliament has passed a resolution that calls for the European Commission to consider creating a single unified copyright law across the European Union. It says that the current law is not...
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Customers would have just 30 days to pay invoices under a new draft Directive proposed by the European Parliament. The law, called the ‘Late Payment Directive’, would limit payment periods for invoices...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament seeks to change law to stop people bidding on rivals’...
Under a European Court of Justice ruling this year, businesses can pay to bid on rivals’ trade marks as keywords on search engines like Google so that they appear in the search results, as long as...
View ArticleWatered down Consumer Rights Directive now likely to proceed
The Member States of the European Union have given the go-ahead to revised European Commission plans for a proposed Consumer Rights Directive. The Directive had previously been controversial because...
View ArticleEU deals with late payment earlier than expected
In October we blogged that the European Parliament had proposed a ‘Late Payment Directive’ to solve the problem of late payment. Avoiding any sense of irony, the ‘Late Payment Directive’ has been...
View ArticleText of new Consumer Rights Directive published by European Parliament
The European Parliament has approved a proposed new Consumer Rights Directive. The original text was published in 2008, and had been intended to make consumer rights uniform across the European Union....
View ArticleEuropean Commission sets out plans for 28th contract regime
The European Commission has set out its plans for the 28th contract law regime. Rather than replace national contract laws, the 28th regime would work as an alternative to a Member State’s contract...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament votes in favour of allowing non-commercial use of orphan...
A European Parliament committee has voted in favour of allowing orphan works to be made available online for non-commercial use. An orphan work is copyright material which has no identified owner. The...
View ArticleITC rejects ACTA amid push to have it ratified anyway
The controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which would require European Union (EU) member states to put in place effective enforcement procedures to deal with counterfeiters, has...
View ArticleACTA rejected by European Parliament
The European Parliament has voted to reject ACTA, the controversial proposed legislation to reduce Internet piracy in the European Union (EU). 478 MEPs voted against the law, with only 39 in favour....
View ArticleEuropean Parliament recommends against consent from pre-ticked boxes and to...
The European Parliament has thrown a real spanner in the works for businesses already disturbed by anticipated changes to the European Union’s data protection laws, which had been released by the...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament votes to speed up access to generic drugs
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for access to generic drugs to be speeded up. The proposal to shorten the period to decide on pricing and reimbursement from 180 to 60 days was backed...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament considers new compensation for using know-how of...
The European Parliament has been debating introducing a new law to compensate indigenous people where their local know-how is used in developing new medicines. Under the proposals, pharmaceuticals...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament gives green light for people to capture images of...
The European Parliament has rejected proposals to punish those who capture images of copyrighted buildings and artworks without seeking permission from the copyright owner. As a result, most tourists...
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